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The Core Values of Vincentian Education

A thorough examination of the document relative to education in the lives and writings of Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac revealed the following values as central to their common mission of evangelization and to the education process.

Holistic: Vincentian education seeks to respond to the intellectual, spiritual, moral and affective needs of the students - educates the heart as well as the head;

Integrated: Vincentian education blends the humanistic and the professional, the abstract and the practical;

Creative: Vincentian education is ever seeking new or renewed ways to meet challenging needs among the student population while maintaining a clear "sense of the possible;"

Flexible: Vincentian education is willing to make the effort to adapt to the needs of the non-traditional student;

Excellent: Vincentian education places quality at the center of its educational activities. It seeks this excellence in:

Teaching: The instructor must not only be competent but must also be efficient, dedicated, and reveal "all those virtues required of the students;"
Methodology: The method employed must be active, challenging, competency-based, and enable the student not only to learn but to enjoy doing so;

Person oriented: The Vincentian educational institution must be one in which all: administration, faculty, staff, and most importantly, students are respected and valued;

Collaborative: Vincentian education seeks to collaborate rather than merely compete with other educational institutions;

Focused: Vincentian education is ever viewed as central to the Vincentian mission of service to the Poor. As such it strives to integrate this vision into the educational process and to keep the primacy of it alive, among all those who share in this common mission.